Horizontally challenged woman decides to take control of her life by running a marathon. A feel-good picture with a gimmick: instead of packing on pounds to play the lead character, raging belle (Jillian Belle) loses weight throughout the course of the picture.
Need cute? Our mysophobic, sportsophobic, and freshly-cheated on titular killjoy (Pernilla August) walks out of a 40-year marriage and grabs the first job the employment agency has to offer to a 63-year-old homemaker with OCD: soccer coach at a ramshackle youth center. You could be blindfolded and seated in another …
A comedy of varying shades of lightness, about a romantic triangle among the hard-driven workers on a network news team. Writer-director James L. Brooks often seems to draw on, and polish up, his previous work in series television. The anchorman who represents style over substance (William Hurt) is a realistic …
A "lost" or anyhow neglected Frank Capra film from the same year as It Happened One Night. (A Columbia film re-released, perversely enough, by Paramount!) All the old gang is reassembled -- scriptwriter Robert Riskin, photographer Joseph Walker -- and Warner Baxter is a more soulful, more careworn, more human …
Defensible perhaps as a Runyonesque (as everyone seems to have agreed to call it) portrait of show people at the lowliest level, a fraternal salute from an established star (Woody Allen) to all his brethren who never struck a spark, an effusive valentine from "Never Too Big" to "Never Say …
Directed by Emmy-nominated director Amy Rice (HBO’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, The Newsroom), the feature-length documentary chronicles the Broadway community’s harrowing and inspiring journey back to the stage following the COVID-19 shutdown on March 12, 2020.
Here's fulfillment of any desire for a homosexual cowboy movie, superseding all those inadmissible innuendos as to Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, the Cisco Kid and Pancho, et al. It fills out and plumps up a sketchy, skinny, yet ample short story by E. Annie …
Director Jonathan Kaplan cut his teeth on exploitation films for Roger Corman (The Student Teachers, Night Call Nurses), so it might seem only natural that he would get around to the women-in-prison genre. But by now he's serious and sensitive, the director of The Accused and Immediate Family, so the …
Peppy, bustling, highly mobile action film — all over the Southwest desert on the trail of a couple of purloined nuclear weapons. Hong-Kong-to-Hollywood émigré John Woo, if not quite the master that his cult followers would have us believe, is at least a tireless laborer, and his movie is abuzz …
“He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist.” How’s that for an incentive-filled tagline? Working from a play by Johan Heldenbergh and Mieke Dobbels, the last thing Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen and writing partner Carl Joos wanted was to transform the story of a bluegrass singer (Johan Heldenbergh) and …
A young black man in a hoodie, shot and killed under questionable circumstances. A powerful politician looking for a quick economic fix that he swears favors both the rich and the poor, but definitely the rich. A secret gay love affair that could end a man's career. Another story ripped …
Almodóvar, as is his wont, gives you splatters and splashes, swatches and swaths, of vibrant color, and he gives you the occasional rock-you-on-your-heels image (a teardrop on a ripe tomato, lovers writhing within a white-sheet cocoon), and he gives you deliberately over-the-top domestic melodrama played steadfastly straight: a blind filmmaker …
Cultural mix-and-match. A beautiful expatriate Croat in New Zealand agrees to a mock marriage with a Chinese immigrant while carrying on an intimate relationship with an indigenous Maori. (Which leads to an intimate scene, just between you, her, and the toilet bowl, of a urine-stream home-pregnancy test.) The tyrannical Croatian …